Some fallout updates:
Why Trump supporters' #BoycottHawaii movement is backfiring [Hawaii residents claim they don't want any tourists at all, much less Trump supporters; anti-Trump mainlanders say now they WILL go to Hawaii since the Trump supporters won't be there; etc.]
http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2017/03/17/why-trump-supporters-boycotthawaii-movement-is-backfiring.htmlTrump admin challenges Hawaii judge’s halt on new travel banhttp://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/18/trump-admin-challenges-hawaii-judge-s-halt-on-new-travel-ban.htmlAnd, finally, this article from the Fox News "Religion" section:
Travel ban fight personal for Hawaii's 'scholarly gentleman'http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/03/18/travel-ban-fight-personal-for-hawaii-scholarly-gentleman.htmlExcerpts:
His motivation was personal [and apparently the "personal" trumps "law"], he said. Chin said he felt as if he was invisible during his time in an overwhelmingly white suburban Seattle high school, and wanted to fight for an invisible minority in Hawaii: Muslims. [Not to mention the media bias shown by blacking out all those statements by Hawaii muslims decrying both 1. the violence of jihadists against civilians and 2. the failure of muslims to integrate into American society by still calling for Sharia law, FGM, etc. /sarc]
"It really hits home with me," he said. "It worries about me about this society and what's happening."
"It's a no-brainer why we have to object to this. I totally know how there's another segment of the population that to them it just doesn't connect," he said. "What does the Middle East have to do with Hawaii?"
The answer, he said, is Hawaii's some 5,000 Muslims are the invisible minority and Chin knows first-hand what that feels like.
[ETA at 5 PM to add one more article that thoroughly analyzes the faulty logic and legal "thinking" of Watson's decision.]
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/03/hawaii_judges_flawed_aloha_akhbar_logic.htmlHawaii Judge's Flawed Aloha Akhbar LogicExcerpts:
The latest indication of the need to drain the judicial swamp comes in the form of Hawaii Judge Derrick Watson’s ruling placing a hold on President Trump’s second executive order placing a temporary immigration ban on six predominantly Muslim countries. It is, as President Trump noted, a classic case of "judicial overreach."
Judge Watson’s logic belongs in a parallel judicial universe where judges are allowed to regulate foreign policy, clearly a presidential prerogative defined in both law and the U.S. Constitution. Judge Watson cites no law and, in the case of the Constitution, says the travel ban violates the Establishment Clause which forbids favoring or disparaging a particular religion. By that logic, you could never restrict any immigration from any Muslim country for any reason. Judge Watson strays outside the four corners of the executive order and ignores explicit U.S. law to cite President Trump’s campaign statements, which are totally irrelevant. Motive, even if correctly discerned, is irrelevant here. Only the law and presidential authority should apply.
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As for the application by Judge Watson of the Establishment Clause to Trump’s travel ban, this is from some Alice In Wonderland law book. If travel ban violates the Establishment Clause, why hasn’t 8 U.S. Code 1182 been struck down by Judge Watson or any other liberal judge? Oklahoma Attorney Robert Barnes, interviewed on Sirius XM radio, says Judge Watson is clearly wrong in extending the Establish Clause to non-citizen foreigners.
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The fact is that the Constitution, which gives the president exclusive power to conduct foreign policy, does not extend infinitely to every non-citizen on this planet who may have some connection to someone here. The law clearly gives the president the legal authority to ban entry to any noncitizen who he determines may be a threat to the national security of the United States.
Judge Watson has not interpreted this or any other law. He has written law, very bad law, and has become the poster child for the need to drain the judicial swamp.